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I have had a Canon 20D for about four months now. Here are some statistics about the photos I have taken:

• Days with 20D: 109 (December 12, 2006 to March 30, 2007)
• Months with 20D: approximately 4
• Photos taken: 6489
• First photo taken: IMG_8609
• Latest photo taken: IMG_5099
• Average photos taken per day: 60
• Average photos taken per month: 1622
• Gigabytes of photos taken: 30.8 GB
• Number of times the 4 GB memory card has been filled up: 7.7

On 3/26/07, Jason Bradley Ploof Mierek wrote:

Paul,

The College office has approved your curriculum acceptance form. You will be dropping the Actuarial Science program and beginning the Art Foundation program effective fall 2007.

Cheers,
Jason

Your Type is INTJ
Introverted (78%) Intuitive (62%) Thinking (38%) Judging (1%)
Myers-Briggs test here.

“Of the four aspects of strategic analysis and definition, it is the contingency planning or entailment organizing role that reaches the highest development in Masterminds. Entailing or contingency planning is not an informative activity, rather it is a directive one in which the planner tells others what to do and in what order to do it. As the organizing capabilities the Masterminds increase so does their inclination to take charge of whatever is going on.

It is in their abilities that Masterminds differ from the other Rationals, while in most of their attitudes they are just like the others. However there is one attitude that sets them apart from other Rationals: they tend to be much more self-confident than the rest, having, for obscure reasons, developed a very strong will. They are rather rare, comprising no more than, say, one percent of the population. Being very judicious, decisions come naturally to them; indeed, they can hardly rest until they have things settled, decided, and set. They are the people who are able to formulate coherent and comprehensive contingency plans, hence contingency organizers or “entailers.”

Masterminds will adopt ideas only if they are useful, which is to say if they work efficiently toward accomplishing the Mastermind’s well-defined goals. Natural leaders, Masterminds are not at all eager to take command of projects or groups, preferring to stay in the background until others demonstrate their inability to lead. Once in charge, however, Masterminds are the supreme pragmatists, seeing reality as a crucible for refining their strategies for goal-directed action. In a sense, Masterminds approach reality as they would a giant chess board, always seeking strategies that have a high payoff, and always devising contingency plans in case of error or adversity. To the Mastermind, organizational structure and operational procedures are never arbitrary, never set in concrete, but are quite malleable and can be changed, improved, streamlined. In their drive for efficient action, Masterminds are the most open-minded of all the types. No idea is too far-fetched to be entertained-if it is useful. Masterminds are natural brainstormers, always open to new concepts and, in fact, aggressively seeking them. They are also alert to the consequences of applying new ideas or positions. Theories which cannot be made to work are quickly discarded by the Masterminds. On the other hand, Masterminds can be quite ruthless in implementing effective ideas, seldom counting personal cost in terms of time and energy.”

-The Portrait of the Mastermind

More on masterminds here.

This almost makes me want to be a woman.

Some women may see 100 million colors, thanks to their genes

A tetrachromat is a woman who can see four distinct ranges of color, instead of the three that most of us live with … A true tetrachromat has another type of cone in between the red and green — somewhere in the orange range — and its 100 shades theoretically would allow her to see 100 million different colors.

“Remember your first everything.”

Your first breath.
Your first day of school.
Your first crush.
Your first family reunion.
Your first car.
Your first concert.
Your first kiss.
Your first detention.
Your first vacation.
Your first heartbreak.
Your first experience out in the real world, by yourself.
Your first time hearing your favourite band.
Your first visit to another country.
The first death of someone close to you.

Every now and then I take this quiz to see how I’ve changed. Past results can be found here and here.

Disorder | Rating
Paranoid: Moderate
Schizoid: High
Schizotypal: High
Antisocial: Low
Borderline: Moderate
Histrionic: Low
Narcissistic: Moderate
Avoidant: High
Dependent: Moderate
Obsessive-Compulsive: High

URL of the test: http://www.4degreez.com/misc/personality_disorder_test.mv
URL for more info: http://www.4degreez.com/disorder/index.html